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music pulitzer goes to higdon

Jennifer Higdon - photo: Candace DiCarlo

The accolades just keep rolling in for Jennifer Higdon, who long ago shed her designation as merely a female composer and is now one of the most performed living composers in the world today.  Today she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto (written for the violinist Hilary Hahn).  Here’s a brief story on the win from the Baltimore Sun.